All of my experience with
royalty share work is through ACX, so all of my comments below pertain to that system.
In case you missed it, I wrote some pros and cons of doing
royalty share work in this article and its comments.
Royalty share work is not for everyone, but I enjoy always having a book project to work on.
My list of pros convinced me to do
royalty share work (especially books with a stipend!)
Not exact matches
In essence, I'm getting my
share of the
royalties via the hard
work of the most popular Children's book Authors and Illustrators of today and yesteryear!
The audiobook retailer will provide
royalty -
share narrators with $ 100 per finished hour of
work for stipend books.
For example, audiobook narrators and authors at Amazon's ACX platform can
work without initial payments passing hands and, instead,
share in
royalties from sales.
money over paying a narrator to do it, or hoping to avoid the
work of finding a good narrator who'll take your book on as a
Royalty Share project... please don't.
It is, in fact, what the current ebook platforms actually
work under for
royalty share, and some others even have 85/15 split for authors.
As more agencies explore the option to
work with clients in digital publishing, authors do have to investigate what support agents can possibly provide that would be worth
sharing a percentage of their
royalties.
It had the awesome vision that authors could
share royalties with the editors, designers, and marketers who
worked to bring their books to life.
If you choose to
work together on a
royalty -
share basis, authors can have a
share of their
royalty be paid out to the expert directly by tredition.
Babelcube
works with a
royalty split model, in which the author's
share increases the better the book sells.
As for
royalty shares, I would have to sift through hundreds of books, read them for commercial viability, and then
work for free hoping a book takes off — that puts far too much risk on me, takes far too much time, and there are easier ways to make money... like writing my own books.
In Bulgaria most people want upfront payment and
sharing the
royalties wouldn't
work here as I think about it now which is good that I will retain the rights.Your insight into the German book market makes sense as there is also a book festival in Munich if I am not wrong.
I see each
royalty share project as a stepping stone on my path to top tier
work.
I don't know of one good book publicist who
works on a
royalty -
share basis.
They think an editor will
work for a
share of their
royalties, because their book is such a wonder, movie producers will be lining up for the rights, and publishers will be printing hundreds of thousands of hardbacks for the first print run for an unknown novelist.
Any time a «traditional» publisher tries to shift the costs of publishing the
Work to the author — either up front or in the
royalty share — the publisher is altering the traditional model and asking the author to take on an unfair
share of the risk.
Mike suggested to me that he would like to see a flexible model where authors and marketers can choose to
work together on a mix of fee and
royalty -
share.
I always have 2 - 4 months on any
royalty share contract so that I have the time to take on audiobooks and my regular voice - over
work that pays up front.
As a
Royalty Share project, the book may or may not get picked up by a narrator willing to work on straight royalty
Royalty Share project, the book may or may not get picked up by a narrator willing to
work on straight
royalty royalty shares.
Heneleen Stewart, As the process should
work, all income from book sales goes to the publisher, which takes its cut and sends the author their
royalty share.
With the
royalty share, a producer is spending a ton of time reading / recording / producing your
work, and then they have to rely on you (mostly) to sell the audiobook.
And they understand that you can't necessarily do a
royalty share deal, but they want you to have some skin in the game, because if a narrator takes on your 10 hour book, that's 40 hours of
work for them.
But, you can
work out revenue -
sharing /
royalty - split arrangements with translators, as Joanna is doing for some of her books.
If a contract lets the publisher deduct the costs of editing, publishing, and distribution of the
work before calculating the author's
royalty share, that means the author is paying some of the publishing costs.
I'm
working on the new novel, but didn't get a stipend, so finding a narrator is harder this time around with new
royalty share.
Self - publishing and digital distribution enables authors to make their
work widely discoverable and accessible with much less upfront investment and much higher potential to make money without a publisher taking the lion's
share of
royalties.
We've been in direct touch with Data Guy to confirm one thing not in the report: In terms of
working out what the sales data scraped for these reports means in terms of earning power, Author Earnings now has the cooperation of some 50 authors who
share their
royalty information with the project.
Many voice actors eschew deals that require them to
work in exchange for a
share of future
royalties.
Victoria, Yes, I have indeed
worked for a midsize publisher who required all their kid's books to be submitted with art and illos together, and if the author did not do both, it was usually a team
sharing royalties.
You can pay them outright for the
work and keep the
royalties for yourself, or you can
share the
royalties evenly with narrators who do the
work at no upfront cost.
I heard that Amazon was
working on building something like this (based on the ACX
royalty -
share model, but for translators), but every time I try to confirm it with an Amazon representative, I get a «no, no, not that I've heard of».
The trustee was largely spared the arduous task of determining the
royalties and
share of profits due to each author, as the publications in question were largely provided by the authors gratuitously or against one - time payments that had previously been paid by the bankrupt in consideration of the right to publish the author's
work.
Where the ownership of a musical
work remains unidentified after a period of 150 days after the release date of the recording in Canada, the
royalties accrued for unidentified ownership
shares are paid by the record companies into a trust account established and administered by CSI for the benefit of those rightsholders.